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[porthole]

Last night in New Jersey the view was fantastic.

Enter your zip code in the link below to get exact time and location for your area.

http://spaceweather.com/flybys/

This is a "double flyby" Meaning that since Discovery has un docked you will be able to see both as too very bright objects over head.
Our time in New Jersey is 7:23pm - and that means at 7:23 you will be able to see depending on the weather. The time and location given buy the link above are exact.

Don't miss it!

[mrmagloo]

What is the code?

The only things they are listing for Chicago is:

March 8th

  ISS 06:21:02 pm WNW 06:23:27pm 57° -3.6 (very bright)
 
  XSS-11 06:23:02 pm NNE 06:26:24pm 76° 4.1 (dim)
 
  GOCE (flaring satellite) 06:27:06 pm S 06:29:10pm 33° 4.6 (dim)

March 9th

  CZ-4B R/B 05:17:20 am NNE 05:21:32am 55° 1.5 (visible)
 
  GOCE (flaring satellite) 06:22:42 pm S 06:24:50pm 40° 4.1 (dim)
 
  ISS 06:47:18 pm WNW 06:49:36pm 41° -2.9 (very bright)

[MikeV]

ISS - International Space Station

MikeV

[mrmagloo]

I noticed that, but the Shuttle is something litle STS something?  It's not sowing at all. Probably no big deal because it looks like the Chicago area will be cloudy.   

[cvobiker]

I lost track of that site awhile back... It is extremely accurate to the second... Thanks posting...I'm hanging on to it this time 

[porthole]

What is the code?

March 9th

  CZ-4B R/B 05:17:20 am NNE 05:21:32am 55° 1.5 (visible)
 
  GOCE (flaring satellite) 06:22:42 pm S 06:24:50pm 40° 4.1 (dim)
 
  ISS 06:47:18 pm WNW 06:49:36pm 41° -2.9 (very bright)

ISS is the International Space Station.
The shuttle when separate is listed as SST.

The lower the number for magnitude the brighter, e.g -3.4 is very bright while 3.4 is very dim.

For the last two nights they were very close, so only the ISS is listed.

Monday night's viewing was shortly after the shuttle undocked, so it was very near and just in front of the space station. If you were to mut your outstretched thumb up towards the objects your thumb would have been the distance separating the two.
Last night, traveling north to south the shuttle was about 20-30 seconds in from of the ISS.

Monday night was the best I have seen in all the times I go out to watch, extremely bright.

This is not a great picture, hand held with a 300mm zoom
The bright object is the ISS after passing overhead. Didn't check to see what group of stars it is passing by. Something to do tonight I guess.
It is very bright relative to the surrounding objects.